Jason M Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason M Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason M |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4663-8993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interlocking systems, intersecting identities
Black men in the United States face disproportionate exposure to community violence, overrepresentation in the criminal justice system, and significant barriers to mental health care. These disparities are further compounded for Black gay men, who navigate the additional psychosocial burden of intersecting racial, gender, and sexual minority stressors. This paper presents an intrinsic qualitative case study of one Black gay man whose life history…
The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
Turning It Around
The ascendancy of right-wing populism and neo-liberalism has sapped many, if not most, progressives’ optimism. Since President Donald Trump got re-elected, it appears that things are getting worse every day. The movement toward a harsher, more unequal and less secure society, however, is not confined to the United States—though its expression there may be the most extreme and glaring. What is to be done? In 2019, in response to Trump's first elec…
Transformative Community-Based Education Programs
Cycles of Debt and Punishment
In the contemporary United States, millions of fathers cycle through the criminal justice and child support systems—cycles that create new forms of debt and disadvantage. This symposium discusses those cycles and their effects on fathers and their families. Through comments on Lynne Haney's book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers, the authors analyze the criminalization of child support and the ways it complicates reentry af…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Qualitative Criminology and Victimology
Crime & Delinquency invited submissions for a special issue on Qualitative Criminology and Victimology in 2021. This double special issue aimed to amplify qualitative methodologies in criminology, criminal justice, and victimology research. The diverse range of articles and commentaries draw on a variety of qualitative methods to advance the discipline
Reflections and Lessons from an Activist
This manuscript is an interview of a local activist in NJ, Ms. Retha Onitiri. We asked her a series of questions that caused her to reflect on her life and journey as an activist. She is a notable activist that has forged immense change in the NJ Juvenile Justice System. She is also an experienced community organizer and mobilizer. She has organized around issues pertaining to the criminal legal system, economic inequality, accessibility, and oth…
Survivor Criminology
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, th…
I am Not Your Felon
Black women are increasingly targets of mass incarceration and reentry. Black feminist writers call attention to scholars’ need to intersectionalize analyses around how Black women interface with state systems and social institutions. This study foregrounds narratives from Black women to understand their plight while navigating reentry through a phenomenological approach. Through semi-structured interviews, narratives are analyzed using critical …
Over-policing Black bodies
This special issue of JECJ presents empirical evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that despite several decades of attempted police reform, Blacks continue to experience policing as a repressive social institution, whether they are engaged in crime or not. The research reveals continued patterns of racially disparate treatment during traffic stops, in police response to protestors, and in mainstream media representations of protest events…
U.S. policing as racialized violence and control
U.S. policing has long been captured within a master narrative of colorblind consensus; however, distinct lived experiences between community groups depict grave disparities in law enforcement experiences and perceptions. Orthodox conceptions of law enforcement ultimately silence marginalized voices disproportionately affected by negative contacts with law enforcement. Centering data in critical theory, this study will present thematic results fr…
Health Implications of Incarceration and Reentry on Returning Citizens
While a great deal of research captures the lived experiences of Black men as they navigate through the criminal legal system and onto reentry, very little research is grounded in how those processes are directly connected to their health. Although some research argues that mass incarceration is a determinant of poor health, there is a lack of qualitative analyses from the perspective of Black men. Black men face distinct pathways that lead them …
Creating and Undoing Legacies of Resilience
This paper contextualizes the struggles and contributions of Black motherhood and reproductive justice under police surveillance in Baltimore, Maryland. We conducted semi-structured interviews with mothers regarding their experiences and perceptions of policing in their community during the aftermath of the police-involved death of Freddie Gray. While the literature disproportionately focuses on Black males, little knowledge is known about the st…
Black Males and the Criminal Justice System
U.S. policing as racialized violence and control
U.S. policing has long been captured within a master narrative of colorblind consensus; however, distinct lived experiences between community groups depict grave disparities in law enforcement experiences and perceptions. Orthodox conceptions of law enforcement ultimately silence marginalized voices disproportionately affected by negative contacts with law enforcement. Centering data in critical theory, this study will present thematic results fr…
Black Males and the Criminal Justice System
Health Implications of Incarceration and Reentry on Returning Citizens
While a great deal of research captures the lived experiences of Black men as they navigate through the criminal legal system and onto reentry, very little research is grounded in how those processes are directly connected to their health. Although some research argues that mass incarceration is a determinant of poor health, there is a lack of qualitative analyses from the perspective of Black men. Black men face distinct pathways that lead them …
Creating and Undoing Legacies of Resilience
This paper contextualizes the struggles and contributions of Black motherhood and reproductive justice under police surveillance in Baltimore, Maryland. We conducted semi-structured interviews with mothers regarding their experiences and perceptions of policing in their community during the aftermath of the police-involved death of Freddie Gray. While the literature disproportionately focuses on Black males, little knowledge is known about the st…
I am Not Your Felon
Black women are increasingly targets of mass incarceration and reentry. Black feminist writers call attention to scholars’ need to intersectionalize analyses around how Black women interface with state systems and social institutions. This study foregrounds narratives from Black women to understand their plight while navigating reentry through a phenomenological approach. Through semi-structured interviews, narratives are analyzed using critical …
Over-policing Black bodies
This special issue of JECJ presents empirical evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that despite several decades of attempted police reform, Blacks continue to experience policing as a repressive social institution, whether they are engaged in crime or not. The research reveals continued patterns of racially disparate treatment during traffic stops, in police response to protestors, and in mainstream media representations of protest events…
U.S. policing as racialized violence and control
U.S. policing has long been captured within a master narrative of colorblind consensus; however, distinct lived experiences between community groups depict grave disparities in law enforcement experiences and perceptions. Orthodox conceptions of law enforcement ultimately silence marginalized voices disproportionately affected by negative contacts with law enforcement. Centering data in critical theory, this study will present thematic results fr…
Survivor Criminology
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, th…
Cycles of Debt and Punishment
In the contemporary United States, millions of fathers cycle through the criminal justice and child support systems—cycles that create new forms of debt and disadvantage. This symposium discusses those cycles and their effects on fathers and their families. Through comments on Lynne Haney's book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers, the authors analyze the criminalization of child support and the ways it complicates reentry af…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Qualitative Criminology and Victimology
Crime & Delinquency invited submissions for a special issue on Qualitative Criminology and Victimology in 2021. This double special issue aimed to amplify qualitative methodologies in criminology, criminal justice, and victimology research. The diverse range of articles and commentaries draw on a variety of qualitative methods to advance the discipline
Reflections and Lessons from an Activist
This manuscript is an interview of a local activist in NJ, Ms. Retha Onitiri. We asked her a series of questions that caused her to reflect on her life and journey as an activist. She is a notable activist that has forged immense change in the NJ Juvenile Justice System. She is also an experienced community organizer and mobilizer. She has organized around issues pertaining to the criminal legal system, economic inequality, accessibility, and oth…
Transformative Community-Based Education Programs
Interlocking systems, intersecting identities
Black men in the United States face disproportionate exposure to community violence, overrepresentation in the criminal justice system, and significant barriers to mental health care. These disparities are further compounded for Black gay men, who navigate the additional psychosocial burden of intersecting racial, gender, and sexual minority stressors. This paper presents an intrinsic qualitative case study of one Black gay man whose life history…
The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
Turning It Around
The ascendancy of right-wing populism and neo-liberalism has sapped many, if not most, progressives’ optimism. Since President Donald Trump got re-elected, it appears that things are getting worse every day. The movement toward a harsher, more unequal and less secure society, however, is not confined to the United States—though its expression there may be the most extreme and glaring. What is to be done? In 2019, in response to Trump's first elec…
Criminology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)